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Well Host, can you tell me what the alternative to this war was? The weapons inspections found WMDs, or it would not have. Either way, at the end of the day, they would have to end the inspections, and the UN would have been forced to lift the sanctions.
Bush & co maintain that Saddam would have used the lifting of sanctions to get new piles of WMDs, and this report supports that. Knowing what we know (and knew) about Saddam, this is not a unreasonable idea. Of course, it might have been possible that Saddam would have renounced WMDs and that he would have turned into a nice guy, but I find that hard to believe.
Given the (hypothetical) rebuilding of the WMD stocks, if the choice was between going in now, and going in in 10 years (with new stockpiles of weapons), I'd say going in now was a good decision.
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